Career Profile

Chris Cox has a 1st class degree in Physics and a PhD in Radio Astronomy from the University of Cambridge. After ten years in scientific and technical consultancy, he worked at Ubinetics on the development of their 3G test mobile system, and subsequently became Director of Technology Training at Imagicom. He set up Chris Cox Communications in 2004.

Chris is an accomplished trainer and presenter, and twice winner of national public speaking competitions. He is the author of Essentials of UMTS, a title in the Cambridge Wireless Essentials series, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

The third generation (3G) cellular system UMTS is advanced, optimised and complex. The many existing books on UMTS attempt to explain all the intricacies of the system and as a result are large and equally complex.

This book takes a different approach and explains UMTS in a concise, clear and readily understandable style. Written by a professional technical trainer, and based on training courses delivered on UMTS to telecommunication companies worldwide, Essentials of UMTS will enable you to grasp the key concepts quickly. It assumes no previous knowledge of mobile telecommunication theory, and is structured around the operation of the system, clearly setting out how the different components interact with each other, and how the system as a whole behaves.

Engineers, project managers and marketing executives working for equipment manufacturers and network operators will find this concise guide to UMTS invaluable.